Gunslinger Reloaded

The Wild West has been the setting for plenty of movies, television shows, comics and video games, and Play'n Go has brought it to life with a little bit of a different approach with their Gunslinger: Reloaded video slot. The premise here is that you're on the lookout for wanted men while making your way around an old town.

This is a particularly visually pleasing game because the graphics and approach to animation fit the theme perfectly. The soundtrack and effects are great as well, and the gameplay is set up so that all of the features and symbols make perfect sense. When a game comes together on this level, it's the hallmark of a great experience for players waiting to happen.

Format and Layout

One of the things that Play'n Go does really well with virtually every single one of their games is give players a format that eliminates a lot of the irritation that can come with needing to fiddle around with betting options. In this title, there are 25 paylines across five reels and three rows. That's normal enough, but it's simplified by the fact that you can't change how many paylines are activated, so that's one fewer thing to worry about.

Across the bottom of the screen, you'll see betting options that range from $0.25 to $100 per spin. All wins are set up to be multiples of this total amount, and all of that combines to make it easy and stress-free to pick out a bet size and get to playing instead of having to deal with numbers of coins, coin sizes, numbers of paylines and all of that.

Bounty Hunt Feature

Get three of the wanted posters on the reels at once to activate the Bounty Hunt Feature. This feature works by having you select a bandit to chase and trying to find him throughout the city. The greater the risk, the greater the reward you will get when you take them down, and that's exactly the kind of thing that you'd see for real back with Wild West wanted posters.

Bottle Free Spins

Get all three bottles on the reels at once for a random number of free spins. You can re-activate the feature during the free spins to give you even more free turns added to your total. However, these spins are worth quite a bit because you'll get a 2x multipliers on all of your wins except for the jackpot and Bounty Hunt feature. This is clearly a value-packed bonus round.

Jackpot Feature

In the top-right corner, you'll see a royal flush in spades over the jackpot meter. When you get a winning combination of a given card rank, you'll see that card highlighted in that royal flush hand. Get all five together with sheriff badge stars, and you'll win the jackpot.

Other Symbols and Payouts

The sheriff is the highest-paying symbol in the regular game. However, it's also a wild symbol, and he'll only pay his own prize when you get five of a kind. That winning combination is worth 400x.

The white horse is a scatter, and it gets you 150x for five of a kind and pays for just two of a kind or more. You can win 40x for five of the gold in a pan, which is the only other symbol that gives you wins for two or more. Likewise, payouts of 20x and 12x are yours for five of the woman in a golden locket or the pistols crossed over the sheriff's badge, respectively.

The five playing cards, all in spades with different colors of poker chips in front, make up the bottom portion of the pay table. Five of the ace earns 6x, and five of the king gives you 5x. It's 4x for the queen, 3x for the jack and 2x for the ten. All of these wins are for five of a kind combinations, and they're all multiplied by your total wager.

In Summary

Gunslinger: Reloaded is a title that is so effectively because Play'n Go focused every aspect of it around the execution of a core idea. This idea is to give players a cohesive experience, and it was done so well because every single part of the game, from the symbol set to the design of the graphics, play on the Wild West motif.

Visually, it's obvious that this game is where it needs to be, but the gameplay shines as well with the variety of ways to get paid, the greatest of which is the atypical way of collecting cards to earn a big jackpot.